When setting the staticdisplaylevels = "2" w/ orientation="Horizontal" it places all menu items on one row, not 2 rows.  Is it possible to use the Asp.Net Menu control to display the menu in 2 rows or do we need to use another solution? 

Are you sure about this? This is supposed to work, so maybe the items only appear to be on the same row visually. Check the html source code, does it have two rows? The staticdisplaylevel property indicates how many levels are fully displayed, deeper menu levels will show according to the selected menu item (and the dynamicdisplaylevel property).

When  you say 2 rows, are you looking for a menu like this.  If yes, then it can be implemented using pure CSS. The tutorials to do that is here.

Lastly, if you want to use the CSS menu and at the same time render it in your asp.net application as a CSS menu, then you might need to also use CSS Control Adapters. Scott Gu has an excellent post here. 

My intention was not to have to manage the clicked/ not clicked menu items and use the StaticSelectedStyle-ForeColor and StaticHoverStyle-BackColor properties of the Menu control.  I have previously built this functionality with a repeater control but, was hoping for a solution which is easier to manage and with less coding with the standard Menu control.  Unless anyone can shed light on using the Menu control, I'll continue using the custom menu.  Thanks.. 

Hi,

Base on your description, do you want to make the Submenu item horizontal?

The ASP.NET 2.0 Menu Control doesn't support Horizontal fly-outs(please check the dannychen post in this thread: http://forums.asp.net/t/937518.aspx).

Maybe, you can try to consider to use the third party control instead, the third party control you can check this link: http://www.dotnetprogs.com/General/MenuExColl.aspx

Hope it helps.

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